Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 - 490 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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... turned out to be the archives of the wartime Service for the Disposal of Israelite Property , set up by the Germans in those few weeks in 1943 when more than forty - five thousand Jews - one fifth of the city's entire population— were ...
... turned out to be the archives of the wartime Service for the Disposal of Israelite Property , set up by the Germans in those few weeks in 1943 when more than forty - five thousand Jews - one fifth of the city's entire population— were ...
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... turned into one of the most important ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8 Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478 Salonica was still a Greek city where more than half of the inhabi- tants were Christians ...
... turned into one of the most important ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8 Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478 Salonica was still a Greek city where more than half of the inhabi- tants were Christians ...
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... turned to the foreign consuls for support . What had started out as a drunken brawl thus quickly turned into a dispute between the two communities at the highest levels exacerbated by the pasha's ineptitude and uncertainty , and fuelled ...
... turned to the foreign consuls for support . What had started out as a drunken brawl thus quickly turned into a dispute between the two communities at the highest levels exacerbated by the pasha's ineptitude and uncertainty , and fuelled ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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